Bangkok, November 28, 2011--A Philippine radio journalist who
reported critically on local corruption and drug trafficking was shot and
seriously wounded on November 24, a day after the International Day to End
Impunity was commemorated.

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Last
night, hundreds of journalists and members of New York's press freedom
community met at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan for the Committee to
Protect Journalists' XXI annual International Press
Freedom Awards.
At the event--celebrating the extraordinary courage of five journalists from
across the globe--guests and award recipients unanimously expressed their
commitment to fighting impunity in the murders of journalists.

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New York, October 19, 2011--A
radio commentator and anti-mining tribal activist who was scheduled to launch a
new radio station program in a few days was gunned down in the southern Philippines on
October 14, news reports said.

New York, October 7, 2011--The Committee to
Protect Journalists condemns the fatal shooting of newspaper editor Johnson
Pascual and calls on Philippine authorities to investigate the case and
prosecute the perpetrators.

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Bangkok,
September 23, 2011--Philippine
authorities should launch an investigation into the abduction of radio commentator
Louie Larroza's daughter, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Larroza told reporters the kidnapping was a "warning" for his radio broadcasts,
news reports said. The journalist's daughter, unharmed, was freed eight hours
later.

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New York, August 24, 2011--Police in Negros Occidental province must
thoroughly investigate Monday's murder of radio commentator Niel Jimena, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ is investigating the killing
to determine whether it was work-related.

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New York, June 13, 2011 -- Romeo Olea, a provincial radio commentator in the Philippines, was shot dead on his way to work Monday morning. Local and international media reports, quoting police sources, say Olea was shot twice in the back while riding his motorcycle to work in Iriga City in Camarines Sur province, about 480 miles (300 kilometers) from Manila.

New York May 20, 2011--The
Committee to protect Journalists is concerned by reports that a Philippines
provincial radio announcer, Jun Albino of Magnum Music and News Radio 99.9 FM
in Cagayan de Oro City, has received a text-message death threat.

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Bangkok, May
12, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by an appeals
court resolution in the Philippines that threatens to curb outside scrutiny of
legal proceedings against suspects in the 2009 Maguindanao
massacre, in which 32 journalists and media practitioners were
systematically shot and murdered.

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Jose Pavia, a veteran journalist and tireless
press freedom advocate, died on April 18 in the Philippines. Pavia, known simply as "JLP" among his
friends and journalist colleagues, was a key partner in CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
He was 72 and had been battling cancer.

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New York, April 18, 2011--The Committee to
Protect Journalists is dismayed by the acquittal of a former police officer
charged with the five-year-old murder of local Philippine radio anchor Fernando Batul.

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New York, March 8, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is worried that a special five-judge panel named by the Philippines Court of Appeal in Manila will free the suspected mastermind behind the Maguindanao massacre, or release him on a technicality. Lawyers for Zaldy Ampatuan, the former governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, have entered a plea for the charges against their client to be dropped.

Trial proceedings began in September for the first 19 defendants in the 2009 massacre in Maguindanao province, raising hopes that impunity's grip on the Philippines would finally be loosened. But in a special report issued in November, CPJ uncovered efforts to subvert the judicial process, including bribe offers to victims' families, and the use of intimidation and deadly violence against witnesses. CPJ's investigation also revealed deeply flawed forensic work and widespread lack of cooperation among law enforcement officials, both of which could hinder the prosecution.

This afternoon we sent out a press release announcing a
$100,000 grant from the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation to support CPJ's Global Campaign Against
Impunity. The campaign enters its third year in 2011, having achieved some
significant successes, including high-level commitment to prosecute the killers
of journalist in the Philippines
and Russia.
Our goal in the year ahead is to turn those commitments into results.

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Police in the southern Philippine province of Palawan
have an unusual head start in their investigation of Monday's murder of radio
broadcaster Gerardo
Ortega. They apprehended the assassin at the scene, with the help of local
firefighters and bystanders, and an unusual amount of information about the
killing is already in the public domain.

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New York, January 24,
2011--Police in southern Palawan province must thoroughly investigate the
motives behind today's murder of Philippine radio broadcaster Gerardo Ortega, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today.